Improvement in clothes-driers and awnings combined



CHARLES E, HYE.

-Improvement in Clothes Drier and Awning Combined.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

CHARLES E. HYDE, OF OSWEGO, NEW YORK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,371, dated November 28, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CEARLEs E. HYDE, of Oswego, in the county of Oswego and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Combined Clothes-Drier and Awning; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the drier without the awning, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation ofthe awning and drier.

This invention consists in the combination of a frame with an awning, which latter can be used either in connection with cords stretched on the frame for the purpose of forming a clothesdrier, protected by the awning from rain, or may be used without the cords, simply as a tent.

Referring to the drawing, a a are vertical standards, of any desired dimensions, set in the ground. b b are oross-bars, connected with said standards in any manner that will allow said bars to be raised or lowered by means of ropes c fastened to' the bars and passing over sheaves mounted in the standards, said ropes being wound around a windlass, d. Staples d are cords stretched om one bar b to the other, for the purpose of forming a clothes-drier. f is an awning, from the ridge of which cords g run, and are secured to eyes i fastened in the tops of the standards a. rlhe edges of said awning are fastened, by means of loops h, to knobs Z placed in the upper sides of the cross-bars b.

When the cross-bars, With the awning thus looped to them, are lowered far enough below the tops of the standards a to tighten the cords g the awning is stretched smoothly above the lines e, and protects the latter and whatever artioles of clothing' may be hung thereon from rain.

The awning may be used in connection with the cross-bars Without the lines, simply as a shelter-tent.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The standards a a, cross-bars b b, cords c c and e e, awning f, cords g g, and loops l l, arranged,

as shown and described, to form a combined clothes-drier and awning, as speoied.

Witnesses: CHARLES E. HYDE.

N. W. NUTTING, M. A. FISH. (91) 

